Thanks. I installed the attached slightly-simpler patch into Gnulib, and it
should appear in the next Gzip release.
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From: Paul Eggert <egg...@cs.ucla.edu>
Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2018 19:05:05 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] test-framework-sh: avoid netstat
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Problem reported by Kristýna Streitová (Bug#29947).
* tests/init.sh (rand_bytes_): Stop using netstat, as it's
deprecated on SuSE and it's not that important anyway.
---
ChangeLog | 7 +++++++
tests/init.sh | 2 +-
2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index b0f01df..63be28d 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+2018-01-02 Paul Eggert <egg...@cs.ucla.edu>
+
+ test-framework-sh: avoid netstat
+ Problem reported by Kristýna Streitová (Bug#29947).
+ * tests/init.sh (rand_bytes_): Stop using netstat, as it's
+ deprecated on SuSE and it's not that important anyway.
+
2018-01-01 Jim Meyering <meyer...@fb.com>
update-copyright: add code to handle more special cases
diff --git a/tests/init.sh b/tests/init.sh
index 3a0e63c..13c1fa4 100644
--- a/tests/init.sh
+++ b/tests/init.sh
@@ -527,7 +527,7 @@ rand_bytes_ ()
fi
n_plus_50_=`expr $n_ + 50`
- cmds_='date; date +%N; free; who -a; w; ps auxww; ps ef; netstat -n'
+ cmds_='date; date +%N; free; who -a; w; ps auxww; ps ef'
data_=` (eval "$cmds_") 2>&1 | gzip `
# Ensure that $data_ has length at least 50+$n_
--
2.7.4
